Lung Cancer: Scalpels, Beams, Drugs, and Probes
- 27 November 1986
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 315 (22) , 1411-1414
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198611273152210
Abstract
Ninety percent of the 149,000 people who will have lung cancer in the United States this year will die of their disease,1 and the physicians caring for them must decide the best way to confront a bleak situation. The article by the Lung Cancer Study Group in this issue of the Journal 2 shows the limitations of two components (surgery and radiotherapy) of our triad of weapons in the treatment of lung cancer. In this prospective randomized clinical trial, postoperative adjuvant chest irradiation was given to patients with resected epidermoid (squamous-cell) carcinoma and positive hilar (N1) or mediastinal (N2) nodes in . . .Keywords
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